Data Architect - SAS
Posted 7 days ago by Boss Professional Services
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
England, UK
Summary: The Data Architect role involves leading the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions within Legacy SAS and SAS Viya environments. The position requires ensuring design assurance and governance for SAS services while collaborating with various teams to resolve complex issues. The architect will also define integration patterns and advise on migration strategies between Legacy SAS and Viya. This role is hybrid and requires security clearance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide design assurance and governance for SAS services, ensuring alignment with data platform and enterprise architecture standards
- Support and guide teams consuming data warehouse sources (on prem and/or cloud) from SAS
- Define and document integration patterns between data warehouses and SAS platforms
- Advise on migration, coexistence and modernisation strategies between Legacy SAS and Viya
- Act as the technical authority for SAS-related decisions, risks and trade-offs
- Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams and vendors to resolve complex issues
- Ensure solutions consider security, performance, scalability and data quality
Key Skills:
- Strong experience as a SAS Architect or Senior SAS Technical Lead
- Hands-on architectural experience with Legacy SAS (Base SAS, SAS Grid, SAS 9.x)
- Proven experience integrating SAS with enterprise data warehouses
- Experience working in regulated or large-scale enterprise environments
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Data Architect - Hybrid - Security Cleared
We're looking for an Data Architect to join a leading client to own the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions across Legacy SAS and SAS Viya environments
- Provide design assurance and governance for SAS services, ensuring alignment with data platform and enterprise architecture standards
- Support and guide teams consuming data warehouse sources (on prem and/or cloud) from SAS
- Define and document integration patterns between data warehouses and SAS platforms
- Advise on migration, coexistence and modernisation strategies between Legacy SAS and Viya
- Act as the technical authority for SAS-related decisions, risks and trade-offs
- Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams and vendors to resolve complex issues
- Ensure solutions consider security, performance, scalability and data quality
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong experience as a SAS Architect or Senior SAS Technical Lead
- Hands-on architectural experience with Legacy SAS (Base SAS, SAS Grid, SAS 9.x)
- Proven experience integrating SAS with enterprise data warehouses
- Experience working in regulated or large-scale enterprise environments
Desirable Experience:
- Experience supporting or designing modernisation journeys from Legacy SAS to Viya
- SAS Viya (cloud or containerised environments)
- Exposure to cloud platforms
- Familiarity with data lake/lakehouse patterns alongside traditional warehouses
- Experience working in multi-supplier or federated delivery models
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